Hi there,
I'm going to run a new role-playing game, possibly on Tuesdays, but I'm willing to move some things around if I get enough people interested. This game is called "Cybergeneration" and you will be role-playing young people who become "cyberevolved" (think X-Men but without the spandex) through a plague of "nanites" in the first scene of the adventure. You will be living in the future (2027 to be exact). The future has new technology, but most of what you are used to still exists in the future.

Kids in the future still play video game consoles, except now they have been all combined into one unit called the "Segatari". (The playstation and xbox both became full-on entertainment systems that are out of reach for most kids.)

For some good ideas of what the atmosphere is like, watch "Demolition Man", "1984", "The Running Man", "Max Headroom", "Hackers" and finally "Rebel Without a Cause"

This game is based in the "Cyberpunk" universe in case you are familiar. The game starts in "Night City", which is in Northern California, and was previously a "clutter of unincorporated suburban sprawl between San Francisco and Los Angeles." The future has not been kind to California or the United States, as Los Angeles is hit with a magnitude 10.5 earthquake and 35% of the city is now underwater, sorry Californians.

On the plus side, after the "Collapse of the U.S." (the book's history runs contrary to what actual history was at this point, as the game book was written in 1993) from a Stock Crash, unemployment, homelessness and corruption, mega-corporations move in to re-build "Night City" using the "New America Project" as a template for the city. Unfortunately, the project goes awry, as ambitious projects normally do, and a powerful collation of gangs murder and hijack the project.

A few years later, corporations re-take the city in a hail of gunfire. After re-building the city to it's once pristine state they maintain a "CorpZone" in the city that is controlled completely by "CorpSec" and other private security forces, under corporate law.

Now, if you've managed to read this far, congratulations, you are almost ready to play, all you need to do is pick a YoGang (equivalent to a class in D&D), and you are ready to go. (the rest of the character creation process will happen as you play)

One last thing, in case you are coming from D&D and would like some pointers heres a few:

At the end of a session you collect IP (improvement points) instead of Experience (same concept).

There are no "levels" in this game, only IP; use them wisely to improve your character.

You use a D10 (10-sided die) for just about everything in this game.

Stat checks replace saving throws.

Getting a 1 is a critical fumble (can have comical side-effects)

Getting a 10 means you get to roll again and add the two die rolls together (can lead to amazing victories in some cases).

Remember, you're playing a kid, so going Rambo on a group of adults will probably get you killed.

Kids don't run around killing other kids... mostly; MegaViolents (one of the yogangs) being the exception to this.

Although guns exist in the future, you're a kid, so you'll have to depend on that bat or knife for now.

Just being a kid, and doing what a kid does can get you places in this game.

Adults shouldn't be trusted.

Adults, especially CorpSec have very bad weapons, try not to engage them directly in combat if possible; instead, use your childhood innocence against them. (They'll never suspect the 12 year old has an electric bolt weapon built into their arm [a bolter])

Please contact me if you are interested in this game or just have questions, I can give you a lot more information about the game in a better format, just send me an email, talk to me in chat, or CM me. :)

Hi Everybody, I've got a very full game now, so I can take maybe one or two more people.. (Gun, I'm saving a spot for you!)

Anyways...

We need to discuss what day this should be, I said I wanted Tuesday, but this doesn't work for everyone, so if you can, please post which days you are available to play on so I can pick a good day for everyone, hopefully. Here is a nice little table for everyone to use to post the days they are available on. Here is my schedule.

Monday is the only day that doesn't work for me, as I have 1 more Chem lab next monday, but after that all those times are fine. I will be travelling between the 15th and 17th of december so that monday on the 17th might be iffy.

Sun: available for whole day
Mon: available from 3pm to 6pm and 9pm to 12pm server time
Tues: available from 3pm to 6pm and 9pm to 12pm server time
Wed: available from 3pm to 6pm and 9pm to 12pm server time
Thurs: available from 3pm to 6pm and 9pm to 12pm server time
Fri: available from 3pm to 12pm server time
Sat: available for whole day

Okay, game is now closed... if you don't show up to the initial session, then you aren't playing until I introduce you separately, so PLAN on being here.

So far, I've got 10 players scheduled, and I'm planning on getting started around 8-8:30 CB Server time on Thursday, that's either tomorrow (if everyone gets their yogang and name to me before then) or next thursday.

So far, I need "names" from everyone playing, and "yogang types" from BluBBeN, MoneyPig, Radianc3, Tyriel, Blarg, Gun, and Despiz.

Please CM me your email address if possible so I can coordinate this somewhere a little more manageable.

Yes you do get IP for mini-sessions. Not as much as a full-session, but enough that it counts against your final year-end grade. :D

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